Plumas County Biographies
Mathias Knoll
Transcribed by Craig Hahn, Dec. 2004
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is a German by birth, and was born at the town of Landan, on the Rhine, August
3, 1821. At the age of seventeen he was apprenticed to a cooper, and worked at
the trade for two years. He then worked three years in a brewery, and in another
brewery in Switzerland five years. In 1848 he came to Cincinnati, brewed the
amber fluid a year at that place, and two years at St. Louis, and then started
overland to California. He mined three months in Nevada county, two years on
Bear river, six months at Auburn, Placer county, three years in Yuba county, and
eight months in Sierra county. From here he went to British Columbia and
Washington Territory, and from there to Yuba county, finally bringing up in
Plumas county. After moving around considerably he started a brewery near
Crescent, which he still owns and runs. He also owns the adjoining ranch of 600
acres. He was married October 11, 1867, to Mrs. Geiss, by whom he has had two
children, Gustavus, born August 4, 1868, and Christina, June 4, 1870. Three
children of Mrs. Geiss, born prior to her marriage with Mr. Knoll, were named
Josephine, Jacob, and Mary Louise. Two died in 1862, and one in 1864.
Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties, with California from
1513 to 1850. � Fariss and Smith, San Francisco, 1882. p 307-307